All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1303
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Weinsteins and BBC Films find meerkat love
The Weinstein Company (TWC)and BBC Films will co-finance African wildlife feature The Meerkats, which is scheduled for a November shoot inthe Kalahari Desert.TWC holds worldwide rightsand international chief Glen Basner and his team will introduce the projectto buyers here at AFM. For the first time BBC Films will collaborate withthe ...
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CMG picks up Legend library and strikes Benelux deal
Edward Noeltner's CinemaManagement Group (CMG) has picked up international sales on the Legend FilmsLibrary and has already sold the entire library to RCV Entertainment for DVDand TV rights in Benelux.The library encompasses morethan 50 newly restored titles by San Diego-based Legend Films, including GeorgeA Romero's Night Of The Living Deadand ...
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Focus picks up international to Meireilles' thriller Blindness
Focus Features International has picked up international rights toFernando Meirelles' upcoming thriller Blindness and will commence sales at AFM this week.Niv Fichman of Toronto-based Rhombus Media, Sonoko Sakai of BeeVine Pictures in Tokyo, and Andrea Barata Ribeiro of O2 Filmes in Sao Paulowill produce.Riberiro and his O2 partner Meirelles recently ...
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Lightning gets rights to Weitz's college comedy
LA-based sales agencyLightning Entertainment has picked up international rights to VulcanProductions' college comedy Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas produced by the Weitz Brothers.Bickford marks the directorial and writing debut of Scott Lewand stars Patrick Fugit as a nerd who is forced to venture into the outsideworld after his book of cool ...
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QED takes on sales for The Girl In The Park
Bill Block's BeverlyHills-based sales company QED International has added psychological thriller TheGirl In The Park to its AFM slate.Keri Russell, AlessandroNivola and Elias Koteas have joined Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth onthe project, which is set to begin principal photography in New York onNov 13.Sean Furst, Bryan Furst and Chip ...
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GreeneStreet's Veneziano moves to LA office
GreeneStreet FilmsInternational (GSFI) president Ariel Veneziano has moved to Los Angeles to joinGreeneStreet Films (GSF) partner Tim Williams in the new West Coast office.Veneziano will head up GSFIoperations and oversee its acquisitions activities. He will seek growthopportunities and increase the volume of GSF third-party acquisitions, whilebroadening GSFI's slate by finding ...
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BAFTA/LA mourns the passing of Peter Henton at the age of 60
Peter Henton, a former member of the board of directors atBAFTA/LA who served as producer of the Britannia Awards for the past 15 years,has died aged 60.Henton arrived in Los Angeles from the UK in 1984 and spent hisentire career in the film and television business. For several years he ...
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Odd Lot takes on rights to Cary's Ira & Abby
Odd Lot International haspicked up foreign rights to Robert Cary's2006 Los Angeles Film Festivalaudience award winner Ira & Abby.The film will screen at AFMand stars Chris Messina and JenniferWestfeldt as a couple that getmarried on a whim and must endure thetumultuous consequences.Westfeldt wrote thescreenplay and Brad Zions produced. Westfeldt,Ilana Levine, ...
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Garbus Krupa starts action picture Brooklyn To Manhattan in NYC
James Garbus and RobertKroupa's Garbus Kroupa Entertainment has started production on the actionpicture Brooklyn To Manhattan,which takes place primarily on the New York City subway. The company is nearingcompletion on Save Me, a dramaabout a gay man who quits his wayward lifestyle and checks into a Christianministry where he confronts ...
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Danielak's Arsenal picks up Ungodly, Ghosts
Yarek Danielak's international sales company Arsenal Pictures haspicked up thriller The Ungodly starring Wes Bentley and the documentaryGhosts, both of whichmake their market premieres here.Thomas Dunn directed The Ungodly, in which Bentley plays a photographerwho unwittingly catches a serial killer in the act and develops a symbioticrelationship with the ...
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Renegade Worldwide takes on Euro thriller Stone Merchant
Crystal Sky's genre label Renegade Worldwide has acquired allrights to Renzo Martinelli's European thriller The Stone Merchant starring Harvey Keitel, Jane, March,Jordi Molla, and F Murray Abraham.Renegade, which is run by Patrick Ewald, will introduce the filmto buyers at AFM. The film is a co-production between Martinelli Film CompanyInternational, Medusa ...
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Sex And Death 101 tops Arclight AFM lineup
ArclightFilms has boarded the black comedy Sex And Death 101 starring Simon Baker and Winona Rider and comedy How ToRob A Bank starring Nick Stahl and ErikaChristensen.Theprojects join Rawson Marshall Thurber's previously announced drama TheMysteries Of Pittsburgh starring SiennaMiller and Peter Sarsgaard as general manager Gary Hamilton ramps up his ...
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Rogue picks up the world on Cameron's 3-D caving thriller
RoguePictures has picked up worldwide rights to James Cameron's upcoming andas-yet-untitled 3-D cave diving thriller.Thestudio is producing with Cameron's Earthship Productions, which the filmmakerset up to advancing his underwater expeditions and documentary work.GaryJohnstone will direct from a script by John Garvin. Cameron and Rogue willdevelop the script and the project ...
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CMG sells Ever Again to Rocky Mountain Pictures in US
EdNoeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has sold domestic rights to MoriahFilms' anti-semitism documentary Ever Again to Rocky Mountain Pictures.EverAgain is the eighth documentary featureproduced by Moriah Films, a division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, andexplores the resurgence of violent anti-semitism across Europe.Thedistributor plans a Dec 8 limited release in Los ...
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Kramer's Rive Gauche picks up Cuban Oscar submission El Benny
Jon Kramer's Rive Gauche Films has acquired worldwide rightsto Cuban smash and foreign-language Oscar submission El Benny and will bring the picture to AFM.Jorge Luis Sanchez's picture recounts the life of Cubanmusic legend Benny More, whose Afro-Cuban jazz big band sound took the nationby storm in the pre-Castro 1950s and ...
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Dublin-set tale wins Final Draft's Big Break contest
TomCosgrove's The Sea Devils beat off3,000 competitors to win Final Draft's seventh annual Big Break InternationalScreenwriting Competition in Hollywood.Cosgrove'sDublin-set tale centres on the world-weary crew of an Atlantic trawler thatbecomes locked in a fight for survival after the fisherman winch a monster fromthe ship's hold into the ocean's dark zone.YehudiMercado's ...
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Film Sales Company picks up Somebody Like You
AndrewHerwitz's New York-based Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights tothe romantic comedy Somebody Like Youstarring Vanessa Williams.RichardSchenkman makes his feature directorial debut on the story of a successfulcareer woman who unknowingly falls in love with the man who donated the spermto father her son. Eartha Kitt, newcomer Kevin ...
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Silverman's Reveille signs movie deal with Universal
Reveille,the TV production company behind US remake hits The Office and Ugly Betty, haslaunched Reveille Motion Pictures (RMP) and entered into a first-look deal withUniversal Pictures.RMPwill create, acquire and develop a broad slate of diverse films and has alreadypurchased and put together a slate of unannounced projects.ProducerGraham Larson, who serves ...
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Hyde Park teams with Capcom for new Street Fighter movie
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and video gamesdeveloper and publisher Capcom have set up a joint venture to adapt anotherfilm version of the hit game Street Fighter.Thefeature will focus on Chun Li, the game's most popular character who embarks ona quest for justice.Details of the story are being kept under ...
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Prada maintains international lead with $16.7m weekend
The Devil Wears Prada remained the number one overseas picture this weekend, adding anestimated $16.7m through Fox International from 4,400 screens in 53 markets fora $130m tally.Thecomedy opened top in South Korea and Belgium on $2.9m from 241 screens and$807,000 from 60 respectively.Strong holds saw the picture add $2.7m from ...